Billiard-cue.



Patented Sept. 13,1910.

BILLIARD CUB.

O. DFBLOOM & J. H. HILL.

APPLICATION FILED mums, 1910.

UNITED OFFICE.

ORVIS DARWIN BLOOM AND JESSE HARMON HILL, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON.

BILLIARD-CUE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 13, 1910.-

Application filed February lfi, 1910. Serial No. 544,240.

To all whom flit may concern;

Be )it known that we, OIWIS I)ARWIN BLOOM and Jnssn HAR oN HILL, citizens of the United States, and residents of Port land, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon. have invented a new and Improved Billiard-Cue, of which the following isa full, clear, and exact description.

"ratelv centered, rigidly connected and brought into perfect alinemcnt when assenibled.

' tion; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary longitudinal section through the cue shaft and butt at the joint; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the shaft section of the cue; Fig. 4 is a similar view of the butt section of the cue; and Fig. 5 is a section of the cue similar'to Fig. 2, showing a modified form of=the construction. 7

i More specifically set forth, the one as constructed in accordance with our-invention is composed of a butt section 10 and a shaft section 11, the cue as a whole being of the conventional construction. The butt section 10 in that form of the invention shown in Fig. 2 is constructed with a longitudinal central socket 12, and in that form of the invention shownin Fig. 5 with a similar threaded socket 12 also provided in the shaft section of the cue in both types of the invention. A connecting screw 13, in the invention as illustrated in Fig. 2, has a portion unthreaded and tightly pressed into the socket 12 of the butt section 10 of the one, and the remaining portion threaded to screw into the threaded socket of the shaft section 11, the invention as shown in Fig. 5 being in all respects the same except the screw. is

threaded for-substantially its full length I and screws into the threaded sockets of both the butt and shaft.

One section of the one (shown to be the shaft section in the forms ofthe invention illustrated) is provided with a relatively wide ring 14, of substantially smaller diame ter than the diameter of the one at the joint between the two sections, with a portion of,

the ring pressed into the shaft section, and the remaining portion projecting therefrom, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, the ring being arranged concentrically to the screw, with the edge of the projecting portion beveled inwardly, as shown in Fig. 2. A similar ring 15 is pressed into the end of the butt section of the cue concentrically of the screw, and is of a diameter to closely fit within the ring 14. The ring 15 is relatively wider than the portion of the ring 14 projecting from the shaft section 11 of the cue, and immediately thereabout. a groove is formed in the butt section 10 to receive the projecting portion of the ring 14 when the two sections of the cue are assembled, the outer edge of the ring 15 being beveled outwardly, which, in connection with the beveling of the edge of the ring'14. insures the free telescoping of therings. This manner of uniting the two sections of the cue insures their accurate centering and brings the sections into perfect alincment when they are assembled. The rings further reinforce the joint between the cue sections and make the one at this point as strong and rigid as if the one was made in a single piece. The outer edges of the two one sections at the joint are preferably slightly rounded, as shown in Fig. 2, so that these edges will not chip oil when the two sections of the cue are tightened.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:-

1. In a billiard cue, the combination of one sections, a screw arranged centrally and longitudinally of the cue sections, detachably connecting them together, and a relatively wide ring arranged concentrically of the screw and projecting into and enveloped by the two sections of the cue.

2. In a billiard. cue, the combination of one sections, a screw, arranged centrally and longitudinally of the cue sections, and telescoping rings arranged concentrically of the screw and carried by the respective sections of the cue 3. In a bllliartl cue, the combination of a In testimony whereof we have signed our cue shaft, a cue butt, each havln" a central names to th1s SPQCIfiCfll'IOIl in the presence 0 longltudlnal socket, a member httlng mto of two subserlblng WItIIGSSGS.

the socket of the cue shaft and one butt, con- ORVIS DARWIN BLOOM. necting them together, and telescoping rings JESSE HARMON HILL. arranged concentrically of the member and Witnesses: projecting into and enveloped by the butt VIOLET HOLSTON,

and shaft of the cue. i HENRY S. WESTBROOK. 

